Geometry Editing

Geometry Editing is the main mode of the editor. Here you create, edit and organize the objects of the project.

The viewport has four views: perspective and three orthographic ones. The properties of the selected object are in the Property Inspector.

Tools

Transform

• Select: Selects objects with a click.
• Move (G): Moves objects with the gizmo.
• Rotate (R): Rotates objects with the gizmo.
• Scale (S): Scales objects with the gizmo.

Mesh Editing

• Vertex Edit, Edge Edit and Face Edit: Turn vertex, edge and face editing on and off.

With one of them on, the editing tools show up in a bar on the left edge of the viewport. Ctrl+click (Cmd+click on Mac) on an element selects the shortest path from the last selected one.

• Add Vertex (A): Creates a new vertex.
• Loop Cut (Ctrl+R): Cuts a ring of edges around the geometry. The mouse wheel changes how many rings, a click locks them and the mouse slides the cuts. Another click or Enter confirms, and Esc cuts in the middle.
• Bevel Edges (Ctrl+B): Rounds the corner of the selected edges. While dragging, V bevels vertices, C toggles the limit that prevents overlap, P flips the profile and the mouse wheel, or + and -, changes the number of segments.
• Extrude (E): Pulls the selection out, creating new geometry. Alt+E (Option+E on Mac) opens the extrude menu:
  • E: The faces together, along their average direction.
  • F: Each corner along the faces that touch it.
  • I: Each face on its own.
  • M: Merges the sides into neighboring faces on the same plane. Pulling the top of a cube only makes it taller.
• Inset Faces (I): Creates a smaller face inside the selected face.
• Knife (K): Cuts the mesh along a line drawn over it, click by click. Enter or Space cuts and Esc cancels. The cut goes only through the visible faces, and Z makes it go through the whole mesh.
• To sphere (Alt+Shift+S, Option+Shift+S on Mac): Rounds the selection toward a sphere. Moving the mouse to the right increases the effect, Ctrl steps by 0.1 and a click or Enter confirms.

The three dots in the top right corner of the viewport hold the editing options:

• Proportional Editing (O): Moving, rotating or scaling the selection also takes the vertices around it, less and less the farther they are. The mouse wheel, or Page Up and Page Down, changes the reach.
• Correct Face Attributes: The texture stays in place when you move vertices along the surface, extrude, inset or bevel, instead of stretching along.
• Discard Unmoved Operations: An extrusion or split (V) that ends without moving is discarded. Turn it off to duplicate vertices in place.

Selection Operations

With vertices, edges or faces selected, a right click in the viewport opens these operations:

• Fill Face (F): Creates a face joining the selected vertices or edges, for example to close a hole.
• Dissolve (Ctrl+X, Cmd+X on Mac): Removes the selection without opening a hole, merging the faces around it.
• Bridge Edge Loops: Joins two selected edge loops with a strip of faces.
• Flip Normals (Alt+N, Option+N on Mac): Turns the selected faces to the other side. With nothing selected, turns the whole object.
• Slide (G twice): Slides the selection along its own edges, without changing the shape of the mesh.
• Hide (H): Hides the selected faces to edit what is behind them. Shift+H hides everything else, and Alt+H (Option+H on Mac) shows everything again.

In the selection, L adds everything connected to the element under the cursor, Ctrl+L (Cmd+L on Mac) extends the selection to everything connected to it, and Ctrl+= and Ctrl+- (Cmd on Mac) grow and shrink the selection.

Creation

• Add Object: Adds primitives, lights and other objects.
• Add Modifier: Adds modifiers, which change the objects placed inside them.
• Add Asset: Adds assets from this or other projects.

Sculpt Mode

Sculpt is in the More modes menu and shapes the mesh with brushes.

• Draw (D): Raises the surface.
• Grab (G): Drags the area along with the cursor.
• Smooth (S): Removes bumps.
• Inflate (I): Thickens the area.
• Flatten (F): Levels the surface.
• Pinch (P): Squeezes the area toward the center of the brush.
• Crease (C): Carves a groove.

Brush size, strength and falloff are in a bar over the viewport, along with Invert Direction (X), which reverses the brushes: draw starts digging, inflate starts deflating.

Menus

File

• New Project: Creates a new project.
• Open project...: Opens a project from your account or, without an account, a .tnp file.
• Save: Saves the project right away or, without an account, downloads the .tnp file.
• Share: Creates the public link or invites collaborators.
• Import: Brings 3D models, textures and materials from your computer, or the content of a .tnp file.
• Export: Downloads the 3D models, textures and materials (For other tools) or the whole project as .tnp (Tinypoly file).

Edit

• Copy, Cut and Paste.
• Duplicate: Creates a copy of the selected object.
• Rename: Renames the selected object.
• Select All: Selects all objects.
• Delete: Deletes the selected object.

Geometry

• Convert to Triangles and Convert to Quads: Turn the mesh of the selected object into triangles or quads.
• Merge Vertices: Welds vertices that are almost in the same place.
• Recalculate Normals: Fixes the side the faces point to.

View

• Show Normals: Shows where each face points.
• Show Vertices: Shows the vertices.
• Show Wireframe: Shows the edges over the surface.
• X-Ray (Alt+Z): Makes the object see-through, to see and select what is behind it.